The Efficacy and Safety of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to the Patient With Dizziness in Emergency Department

Changhua Christian Medical Foundation

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Dizziness

Treatments: Other: Acupuncture and Fir-Infrared heat-patch attachment; Other: Far-Infrared heat-patch attachment; Other: Far-Infrared heat-patch attachment over acupoints without electric current passing.; Other: Acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04415307

191250

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study is aimed in patients with persistent dizziness as the chief complaint that is treated with acupuncture or/and far-infrared heat-patch attachment intervention over the acupoints for the purpose of dizziness symptoms treatment. The research hypothesis is that the treatment over acupoints in traditional Chinese medicine is effective in treating symptoms of dizziness.

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Patients with age between 20 to 80-year-old who can cooperate to the whole treatment, testing and questionnaire.
2. The chief complaint is dizziness which diagnosed by the doctor in charge of the emergency department, in together to exclude the patients with severe unstable vital signs, and then consult for help with Chinese medicine.
3. Sign the clinical trial agreement sheet.

Exclusion criteria

1. Inacceptable to the research content
2. Unable to complete the study process
3. Unwilling to cooperate with acupuncture and other treatments
4. Abnormal blood clotting profile
5. With wound or allergy over the treated acupoint
6. Unstable vital sign
7. Post major trauma

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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0 participants in 4 patient groups, including a placebo group

Acupuncture

Experimental group

Description:

Acupuncture over acupoints.

Treatment:

Other: Acupuncture

Far-Infrared

Experimental group

Description:

Far-Infrared heat-patch attachment over acupoints.

Treatment:

Other: Far-Infrared heat-patch attachment

Combination of Acupuncture and Far-Infrared

Experimental group

Description:

Acupuncture and Far-Infrared heat-patch attachment over acupoints.

Treatment:

Other: Acupuncture and Fir-Infrared heat-patch attachment

Placebo (no Acupuncture nor Far-Infrared)

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Far-Infrared heat-patch attachment over acupoints without electric current passing.

Treatment:

Other: Far-Infrared heat-patch attachment over acupoints without electric current passing.